Contractors have been able to dig their way into an out-of-control oil well through the shallow marshes of southern Plaquemines, cut off a failed piece of the equipment and stop the 82-year-old ...

PECOS COUNTY, Texas, Aug 14 (Reuters) - On a sprawling ranch in Pecos County in late July, oil well control specialist Hawk Dunlap used a backhoe to uncover an abandoned or so-called zombie well that ...

An 82-year-old oil well drilled before the Allies turned the tide of World War II was spewing an undefined amount of oil, gas and water skyward and into the coastal marshes of southern Plaquemines ...